Reading And Learning: My Memories Of Learning To Read

Throughout my education I have learned how to read and write in many ways. I have many memories that contribute to my learning from over the years. When I was younger, I would get upset when I didn’t understand what the books said or what my cousins would write, also I would get upset because I couldn’t write my name or sentence like my cousins could so it made me strive to become a better reader and writer. My first memories of learning to write and read come from when I was around four-years old. Every week day when my mom would babysit my cousins, they would help teach me how to write my name, the alphabet and many small common used word they also helped me learn how to read better. My mom had the biggest impact on me learning how to read because she would read bedtime stories to me while lying in my big cozy bed with a Barbie comforter every night before I would fall asleep. She mainly read books by Dr. Seuss such as Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, and many of his other well-known books. While lying beside me my mom would hold the book where we both could see each word then she would read the words slowly so I knew what word she was on, and show me the pictures that way I

By the time I got to kindergarten, I knew how to write clearly and read faster and better than I did before. Throughout elementary and middle school, I learned more about reading and writing. I learned the basics about writing such as parts of speech, structures for and grammar rules. Learning the basics of writing took lots of practice, but each year was a review of the year before, except it had stuff added to the lessons. I also learned how to comprehend what I was reading about at a faster pace than I was before by taking test over my readings and even doing common core